Filing-cabinet.



Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH (20.. WASHINGTON. 1:.c,

rrrcn A FRANZ WALTHER ILGES, 0F COLOGNE-BAYENTHAL, GERMANY.

FILING-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

Application filed June 28, 1909. Serial No. 504,914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ WVALTHER ILGES, a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of Cologne-Bayenthal, Germany, (whose post-office address is 11 Casarstrasse,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in F fling-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of this invention is an arrangement which allows of drawings, blue prints, lithographs and other papers being kept dust proof and visible at a glance, in a small space, so that each individual sheet can be removed without bringing the other sheets out of their order and position, and can be put back in the same order again. This object is attained by suspending each drawing by means of two hooks clamped thereto on two vertical rods disposed at right angles to the plane of the sheet in a box or cabinet.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows one form of the cabinet in open position: Fig. 2 shows a modification.

Referring to Fig. 1 the cabinet comprises a box both the cover a and also one or two of the sides Z; of which are arranged to open. Between the front and back sides cl and c of the box, which are rigidly connected, are

fitted two rods 6 and f. The sheets 9 are sus-- pended behind one another on the rods e and f each sheet being supported by means of two hooks it formed as clips which do not damage the sheet. In order to remove one sheet it is necessary to push the sheets in front slightly forward on the rods and then to raise the sheet to be removed with its hooks from the rod and withdraw it through the side door 6. Additional sheets are inserted in the cabinet in the reverse'manner.

In the modification shown in Fig. 2 the front door of the cabinet is preferably constructed as a shutter 2'. Instead of this shutter, however, any suitable form of door may be fitted to the cabinet. In the interior of the cabinet are secured frames 70 and Z each consisting of four rectangular firmly connected bars which can be removed from the cabinet after the manner of a drawer. The rods m for suspending the drawings are either disposed parallel to the sides of the cabinet, as in the upper frame 72, or as in the lower frame Z are arranged at right angles to the sides of the cabinet. In order to re move a drawing from or to file a drawing in this cabinet, the front is first opened, the corresponding frame is drawn out, and the drawing hooked on to the rods m or removed with the hooks. The cabinet can obviously also be constructed in forms other than those described.

The hooks by means of which the drawings are suspended are constructed of sheet metal or wire in such manner that the upper end of the wire or sheet metal is bent round into the form of a hook open toward one side while the other end is formed as a resilient clamp.

The drawings suspended in the cabinet are preferably provided at their upper or lateral edge with a projecting label 9, on which the number or the subject of the drawing is described. As these labels project, after the filing of the sheets, they simplify the location of the desired drawing. The location of any sheet is. indeed very simply and easily effected, just as in the case of a letter in a letter file provided with an index.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent 1s In a filing cabinet comprising fixed walls, a hinged wall, a hinged top and rods secured to and extending between the fixed walls, sheets having hooks opening in the same direction and constructed to engage and be disengaged from said rods by moving the sheets longitudinally of the cabinet when the hinged wall is open, and a label secured to and projecting above the upper edge of said sheets.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BESSIE F. DUNLAP, LoUIs VANDORY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

